which appeared to be about two and a half feet in length, 
flew north-westward along the beach, about twenty yards 
above the water and perhaps two hundred off shore. I could 
not name the species, though it had the general appearance 
of a grebe or loon. The long neck was not held out straight, 
but was crooked at the lower end. The upper parts of the 
bird, as far as I could see, were dark but not black, and the 
entire under parts, including nearly the full circumference 
of the neck, were a brilliant white. When nearly out of 
sight, the bird wheeled to the left towards the beach, flew 
back, and alighted on the water directly off shore from 
where I stood, and not over one hundred and fifty yards 
away. I saw no wing patch as the bird came down. Im¬ 
mediately I trained my thirty-five power telescope on the 
bird. The sun was clear and behind me, and the light and 
visibility perfect. The back appeared to be an even un¬ 
spotted and unmottled dark, dull, grayish-brown. A very 
narrow stripe along the back of the neck was equally dark. 
The top of the head and nape appeared almost black and 
connected without break with the rest of the dark upper 
parts. In side view the stripe on the neck was hardly 
evident. There was not a trace of black collar, or black 
or rufous coloration on the sides or front of the neck. The 
basal part of the lower mandible was a grayish horn color, 
and not at all like the yellow bill I have seen on the Hol- 
boell’s Grebe. The rest of the bill was quite dark. It was 
very clearly a grebe’s bill, although I did not attempt to 
estimate its dimensions. The most striking feature of the 
bird’s appearance, however, was plain to the unaided vision, 
and I am confident that one familiar with the bird would 
have identified it at a glance,and that feature was the long, 
slender, pure white, gracefully-curved neck. At times it 
looked quite swan-like, but the bird was not half the size 
of a swan and the bill was unmistakeably that of a loon or 
grebe. The bird sat on the water with considerable eleva¬ 
tion to the center of the back, and did not have at all the 
long, low silhouette of a loon, but rather that of the little 
Horned Grebe. 
I watched the bird fishing for many minutes, then, after 
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